{"id":8460,"date":"2020-04-14T20:06:30","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T02:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rctc.edu\/echo\/?p=8460"},"modified":"2020-04-14T20:06:30","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T02:06:30","slug":"previous-editor-in-chief-honored-to-have-been-part-of-echo-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/previous-editor-in-chief-honored-to-have-been-part-of-echo-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Previous Editor-in-Chief \u2018honored to have been part of Echo staff\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Ilhan Raage<\/strong>
\nGuest Column<\/p>\n

To say the least, I was shocked that the Echo placed first in General Excellence at the MNA\u2019s Better Newspaper Contest. For the second year in a row!<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not that our staff didn\u2019t put in the work to have qualified. As a matter of fact, we worked so hard and I couldn\u2019t be prouder of us.<\/p>\n

The reason I was so surprised is because we managed to place first against student newspapers from four-year universities.<\/p>\n

This accomplishment is one that I won\u2019t forget and an achievement that I\u2019ll use as encouragement for future goals as well.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m so proud of our staff and I\u2019m grateful to Dwight Boyum for his guidance, motivation, and support throughout the year.<\/p>\n

Three of our staff members also placed in individual categories. Hawa Sheikh-Adam, our Arts and Entertainment Editor, placed second for arts and entertainment reporting, our Photo Editor Nathan Hoover placed second in feature photography, and Breanna Shen, our second Arts and Entertainment Editor, placed third in column writing.<\/p>\n

I was a writer for the Echo for a semester and then I was the editor-in-chief for a year. The experience I had and lessons I learned while working there will last me a lifetime.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m incredibly grateful to have had the opportunity to write for and be part of such an amazing newspaper. As a staff member, I built better communication skills, learned to be comfortable with interviewing others as well as being interviewed myself, and learned to balance school, the newspaper, and work.<\/p>\n

Without a doubt, I believe it is the wonderful people who work at the Echo who made it what it is today, and I\u2019m honored to have been a part of the staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Ilhan Raage Guest Column To say the least, I was shocked that the Echo placed first in General Excellence at the MNA\u2019s Better Newspaper Contest. For the second year in a row! It\u2019s not that our staff didn\u2019t put in the work to have qualified. As a matter of fact, we worked so hard […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1012,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1012"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}